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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.

  • "Two hours later my .NET career was over"

    Tim Case was playing the .NET game when one destined Saturday afternoon sent him a wakeup call: Last November one Saturday afternoon I was pissed off and frustrated trying to...

  • Seeing is believing, part 342

    Tobias Luekte gave Medsphere where Todd Berman works a visit and quickly turned doubt into believing: Tobias, in one day, with rails was able to put together a webapp for...

  • Fixing Ruby on OS X Tiger

    Apple has done a great thing by including Ruby 1.8.2 in OS X 10.4, but unfortunately they stumbled just as they were to cross the finish line. Tiger has some...

  • "This era' true revolution in web development"

    Phu Ly is a software developer working out of London that seems to quite fancy the Rails: Ruby on Rails has to be the one of the real breakthroughs in...

  • Kwartz 2.0 brings more templating choice to Rails

    Kwartz is a templating system for Ruby built on the concept of Independence of Presentation Logic, which bans loops, conditions, and similar constructs from the template files themselves. Instead that...

  • Got design chops? lighttpd needs them!

    A star is rising as an alternative, lighter-weight web server that doesn’t start with an A and ends with ‘pache. It’s called lighttpd and they actually maintain their FastCGI bindings,...

  • Rails job in Columbus, Ohio

    Just spotted this mighty brief posting for a Rails position in Columbus, Ohio on craigslist and thought I’d pass it along. It’s never been a better time to jump on...

  • 5th Rails book announced (2nd from O'Reilly)

    Robby Russell has announced his authorship of an upcoming book that’ll provide “… an in-depth look at RoR, how it works inside and out”. The book is to be published...

  • Rails 0.12.1: No major update without a bit of pain

    There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were...

  • Rails 0.12.0: Eager associations, new Base.find API, assertions revisited, more Ajax!

    The time had come to butcher the piggy-back query and introduce real association loading through outer joins. Behold, the glorious eager loading of associations that makes it silly easy to...